Lasers solve the mystery of the missing quill. | Continue reading
Sleep encoding turns out to be a real thing. | Continue reading
We might soon see more carnivores go meatless. | Continue reading
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Hollywood's notions of future wars may be nothing like the real ones. | Continue reading
The news has not been encouraging as of late if you are one to pay attention to either climate change or The Great Barrier Reef: coral reefs are an incubator of the ocean's ecosystem. They account for less than 1% of the ocean and yet manage to provide food and shelter to over on … | Continue reading
The thing is, "artificial intelligence" itself is a lie. Just evoking that buzzword automatically insinuates that technological advancement is making its way toward the ability to reason like people. To gain humanlike "common sense." That's a powerful brand. But it's an empty pro … | Continue reading
China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it's leaving many in the global community concerned as to why. | Continue reading
Even the optimists among us would have to admit 2018 was a challenging year. | Continue reading
The CEO once said a self-sustaining Mars colony won't work if it's wildly expensive for each person to make the voyage. | Continue reading
A breakthrough app for ultrasonic squeak analysis. | Continue reading
Here's the recipe to make a black hole: start with a sizeable amount of hydrogen, enough to make a star about 25 times the mass of the sun. That hydrogen will begin burning into helium. Let the star cook for a few million years, and it'll start to run out of hydrogen to burn. The … | Continue reading
One frequent question I get is whether we can break the light barrier—because unless we can break the light barrier, the distant stars will always be unreachable. | Continue reading
A moving mural by street artist Eduardo Kobra is one of the first fruits of a revolution about to take the art world by storm. | Continue reading
The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them. | Continue reading
About a quarter of victims' lost time was avoidable | Continue reading
A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data. | Continue reading
Decades of studies have shown parents to be less happy than their childless peers. But are the kids to blame? | Continue reading
Research has shown that men today have less testosterone than they used to. What's happening? | Continue reading
Technology proves what women know and men may not want to hear | Continue reading
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank. | Continue reading
We have to practice doing nothing more often. | Continue reading
Peter Thiel delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Nantucket Project, arguing that the U.S, is resting on its laurels, and no longer innovating. | Continue reading
A.I. makes a lot of mistakes. | Continue reading
This study is radically changing how we view the process of evolution. | Continue reading
Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist. | Continue reading
Spinal implants deliver intermittent bursts to stimulate movement. | Continue reading
Famous physicists like Richard Feynman think 137 holds the answers to the Universe. | Continue reading
A neuroscientist argues that Da Vicni shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt. | Continue reading
A new study delivers the dark financial reality of cancer. | Continue reading
Doctors in Shetland can now prescribe a walk in natureIt's believed to be the first program of its kind in the U.K.The health benefits of engaging with nature are numerous. | Continue reading
Our experience of time may be blinding us to its true nature, say scientists. | Continue reading
Most basic form of data, meet most basic form of matter. | Continue reading
Ketosis is known to work wonders in terms of short-term weight loss. But what about the diet’s effects over the long term? | Continue reading
America's fear of an Anglo-Japanese alliance led Canada to worry about a U.S. attack - and in the end, devise a scheme for a 'pre-emptive invasion' of its southern neighbour | Continue reading
Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world's roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones. | Continue reading
A new study used massive amounts of data from an online dating service to explore what makes someone desirable, and how people go about attracting partners online. | Continue reading
An increasingly likely catastrophe can cause major disruptions in space flight and our daily lives. | Continue reading
Richard Feynman once asked a silly question. Two MIT students just answered it. | Continue reading
An MIT model predicted when and how human civilization would end. Hint: it's soon. | Continue reading
The pool of things that "AI Can't Do" appears to be steadily shrinking. | Continue reading
By 2020, China plans to assign each of its 1.4 billion citizens a “social credit score” that could determine what certain people are allowed to do. | Continue reading
It can be hard to understand why a person would be an atheist. Bertrand Russell is here to help. | Continue reading
A chilling interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB. | Continue reading
MeerKAT is producing brilliant images of the super massive black hole that is at our galaxy’s center. | Continue reading
Researchers at Princeton engineer a new type of diamond with silicon and boron that solves past issues with quantum data storage and retrieval. | Continue reading
There appears to be a bizarre stigma around people – especially women – who voluntarily decide not to procreate. | Continue reading
Younger siblings generally have a lower IQ than their older brothers and sisters, according to three large national surveys from the US, UK, and Germany. | Continue reading